NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 9-to-5 activity
5 In heaven, say
10 Like a Saturday crossword 14 Person in a boardroom, informally 15 It’s in the details, they say 16 Arthur who wrote “Days of Grace” 17 Meat substitute
18 Cards in Monopoly
19 Put the kibosh on
20 French conductor Boulez 22 Upscale hotel facility
23 Electrical unit
26 “___ relax” (“Breathe”) 27 Web-footed diver
28 Things that may be broken when
moving?
30 Pic picked in a parlor
32 Gare de l’___, Paris railway station 33 Senegal’s capital
34 Where the sheep is in “Little Boy
Blue”
37 One totally unlike another … or what each answer on the edge of this puzzle has?
41 Inscribed stone markers
42 Having no toppings, as a pizza 44 Singer/songwriter Difranco 47 Rocks, in drinks
48 Pooh’s morose friend
49 Complete stranger, slangily 51 Gregor ___, Kafka character who transforms in “The Metamorphosis”
54 Put in stitches
55 Unpleasant encounter
56 Madison Square Garden team 58 “Really?”
59 Bird whose beak inspired Darwin’s
theory of evolution
60 Fend (off)
64 Flying formations
65 Accustom to difficulty 66 Taiwanese electronics giant 67 Like a Monday crossword 68 In hell, say 69 Off-hours activity
DOWN
1 Rainy
2 Big name in kitchen utensils
3 Arena arbiter, informally 4 Single-serving coffee pod
5 Venomous snakes with zigzag patterns
on their backs
6 Drunken, in a way
7 Not hidden
8 Obsolescent home movie format
9 They loop the Loop
10 Rips into
11 Shrewd
12 Some French wines
13 Take off, as a plane
21 Method of successive improvement 22 In some sense
23 Like the year you ring out on December
31
24 In a ___ of trouble
25 Speedy shark
29 Pizza joint in “Do the Right Thing” 31 Hubbub
34 Fancy notebook brand
35 Fuel economy org.
36 Foxlike
38 Critic’s pick, for short
39 Tourist city in New Mexico’s high desert 40 Dublin’s land
43 Like the year you ring in on January 1 44 Land, as a plane
45 Seasickness, e.g.
46 Some belly buttons
48 Forgo
50 Bubbleheaded
52 Cancel
53 Prefix with aggression
57 Exchange
59 Little lie
61 Kind of tear for an athlete
62 Stephen of “V for Vendetta”
63 Not rainy